war=loss of shared tech?

[Dinner]

This sounds horrible. So if we jointly research automobiles but 50 years later we go to war then suddenly everyone forgets how to build cars? What a crock of ****.

[Nikolai]

Now, now. Let's not jump to conclusions just yet. Previews have been wrong on details before.

[SpencerH]

The T34 was the best MBT of WWII.

[The Emperor Fabulous]

This sounds horrible. So if we jointly research automobiles but 50 years later we go to war then suddenly everyone forgets how to build cars? What a crock of ****.

Lot of hearsay and assumption going on. I'm pretty sure it'll just be if you go to war with them during the research, you'll each lose your partner's half (or percentage?) of the research. At least, that's how I read it, and really it makes way more sense as a game mechanic.

Seriously, what would be the point of two civs going to war if they're both going to lose technologies they've already researched? If you're splitting a tech, then you go to war with each other, wouldn't both have to lose it?

[SpencerH]

Lets try to keep logic out of the discussion please.

[Ming]

Lets try to keep logic out of the discussion please.

Yeah... let's stick to pure speculation and uninformed opinions. Logic has NOTHING to do with this at all.

It's more fun this way

[wodan11]

Exactly! Imagine the nerve. Our cognitive processes here on Apolyton are much more attuned to creative intuition and leaping to conclusions by virtue of exercising disassociative thinking instead of such vulgar, plebian concepts as logic and reason.

[rah]

Don't use logic to defend our lack of it's use.

[The Emperor Fabulous]

I think this is the first time on Poly that I've ever been accused of using "logic".

[Blaupanzer]

We won't make that mistake again!

[MikeH]

I think this is the first time on Poly that I've ever been accused of using "logic".

Are you offended?

[Ming]

How can somebody actually be offended by something said on the internet?

[Nikolai]

How would Poly survive if people wasn't?

[giblets]

How would Poly survive if people wasn't?

This is an abuse of English grammar!

[Ijuin]

Lot of hearsay and assumption going on. I'm pretty sure it'll just be if you go to war with them during the research, you'll each lose your partner's half (or percentage?) of the research. At least, that's how I read it, and really it makes way more sense as a game mechanic.

Seriously, what would be the point of two civs going to war if they're both going to lose technologies they've already researched? If you're splitting a tech, then you go to war with each other, wouldn't both have to lose it?

What I think is meant is that you lose all research towards the advance that you are CURRENTLY researching. A "research pact" would be an agreement to work together towards specific advances (e.g. Automobile). If you break the pact before Automobile is achieved, then you lose all progress toward it. Upon achieving Automobile, both civilizations will gain the advance, and the pact expires, having been fulfilled. The pact would not be an open-ended agreement that lasts indefinitely, but only until the agreed-to-research advances are achieved.